BOGOTA — Colombia’s top military officer has told AFP that his country will fight the resurgent cocaine trade with or without American help, after Washington blacklisted Bogota for what it called flawed anti-drug efforts.

Amid record cocaine production, President Donald Trump this week declared that Colombia’s leftist government was no longer helping in the drug war and had failed to curb the flow of cocaine to the United States.

Trump’s declaration marked a new low in normally warm relations between the world’s top cocaine producer — Colombia — and the drug’s top consumer, the United States.

In an interview with AFP hours after Trump’s announcement, the commander of Colombia’s defence forces, Francisco Cubides, said Tuesday that the two countries would continue to work together despite

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